Crush angst: pretty typical crush on my best friend. It is in all likelihood still reciprocated, although nothing has ever happened. We're both with others (she's married, my girlfriend is the sweetest person I've ever met), and she and hers are on the way out. I didn't hear from her for a little while, now she wants to talk about this in that ominous sort of way. As much as I wish I never went down this crush path, I'm petrified I'll lose a wonderful friend now. Ugh.

I am so boy crazy. It is really such a big problem!!! I can't go out without making (or attempting to make) eye contact with every good looking boy that I see and then thinking about them for the rest of the day. I was just at Whole Foods and the guy working in the bakery department was so cute and I just got so flustered when he tried to ask if I needed any help :(.

I hate having crushes. It makes me all giddy and stupid and feel like a twelve year old girl. Despite not liking to crush, it is hard not to.

I have a cruch on a sweet guy who's probably a couple years younger than me who's funny, kind, cute, and unfortunately has a girlfriend. There is also a second guy I'm crushing on who's eight years older than me. It's completely irrational, he is so many things I don't want in a guy, but I'm still crushing. He even suggested we go out for drinks and vegan burritos, but we didn't actually plan a date so we'll see if it really happens.

_________________I think my heart just exploded into a shower of glitter --TinLychee

If my crush works out, I am absolutely going to make this card for him come Valentine's Day. I will share pictures.

Anyways, I have a raging crush but I'm convinced that I'm way too boring and emotionally damaged and he could never like me, even though we've made with smooches. It's just that I don't think he'll ever want anything from me other than sometimes smooches. I am so totally not girlfriend material. :(

Except a good friend of mine that I used to be wildly crazy about recently got drunk and spent the night hugging me and telling me that he was an idiot to not give me a chance when I wanted one and that he wants to be with me and we should try to really give a relationship a go and so on and so forth. He's a close, beloved friend, but I want nothing to do with him in the romantic sense and so this made me angry. Also, he hates vegans and is constantly veg-bashing and my first thought was "I am not wasting my precious Daiya on you!"

Crush isn't veggie, but ordered veg both times we went out and even wants to go to dinner with me at a vegan restaurant and is totally conscientious about making sure that wherever we go has vegan options and doesn't make like it's a burden at all. Even when I was vegetarian dates would moan and groan, let alone vegan! And we rode bikes together!

BOYS ARE STUPID AND THEY MAKE ME FLUSTERED. GRR.

_________________Your heart is a muscle the size of a fistKeep loving, keep fighting

I feel like the difference between 21-year-old-undergrad-who's-never-been-in-the-real-world and 27-year-old-grad-student-who-has could be problematic. But I could be wrong, and that's what we'll have to find out.

this is almost exactly the ages that my husband & i were when we started dating -- except i was even an extra year younger than him (20 & 27). needless to say, it all worked out. you should go for it!

This is the leading reason why I would like to just meet someone, fall in love, and be done with it. I am sick of this crepe.

I always said I was going to be married to my career, and I'm doing a pretty good job of that right now (it's a side-effect of academia), but having a crush is so farking distracting. If I can't just turn the crush switch to "off" then can I just shack up with someone to get all this irritating junk out of the way so I can focus on better things, like making brunch and reading critical theory? Jeez.

_________________Your heart is a muscle the size of a fistKeep loving, keep fighting

I feel like the difference between 21-year-old-undergrad-who's-never-been-in-the-real-world and 27-year-old-grad-student-who-has could be problematic. But I could be wrong, and that's what we'll have to find out.

this is almost exactly the ages that my husband & i were when we started dating -- except i was even an extra year younger than him (20 & 27). needless to say, it all worked out. you should go for it!

We are! We had a drink Saturday night and were all handholdy and stuff, and we hang out in the library all the time, which sounds silly I know, but it's cute. We're just going at a glacial pace: sort of a mutually understood but unspoken sense of caution...

pastabake wrote:

(Totally on topic. He had a crush on me for almost a year and I had a crush on him for a bunch of months before we finally, like, kissed each other. You should kiss whomever you have a crush on!)

This is the only problem with the glacial pace... there has been no kissing... except in my daydreams. I WANT KISSING!

basically had to break above-mentioned crush's heart today. she told me she's in love with me. I might be crushing on her, but I'm in love with my girlfriend. today has been unpleasant. I just self-medicated with a monkey wrench cookie.

I think I'm actually getting more immature inside. In that stupid awkward high school kind of way. If this is what crushes do to you, they can kiss my asparagus and die.

Agreed. My crush is totally broken up at the moment because his ex is sleeping with his best friend. And plus there's the fact that I like being friends with him too much to do anything about it. Eh. Stupid.